Ok....its 2015 and I still don't have my flying car!!

I feel your pain. This isn't the technological future I signed up for back in 1966 when I had a crew cut and was thinking about being an astronaut while learning to read.

 

I just got my first smartphone this month.
I'm a late adopter. My last cell phone was a text-centric cellphone. I also threw out my old entertainment center and bought a new one. The old one was designed for CRT TVs so it was deeper and there was some shelf space on the sides for VHS tapes. Yeah, pathetic.

I guess I'll be ordering my silver spandex pants next month.

 

Yeah! And what about those automatic doors that go "shhhhhhhht" they promised us? And I'm still waiting for conveyer belts everywhere. This whole walking b******t is for chumps!

 

possibly NSFW

 

50 years ago people still died from polio, and all these things didn't exist:

- CT scanner
- the birth control pill
- heart transplants
- microwaves
- jet airliners
- cordless tools
- communication satellites
- smoke/carbon monoxide detectors
- pacemakers
- chemotherapy
- rechargeable batteries

 

Hey, knock it off with facts already. You are spoiling a good rant. You are just as bad as that cloud out there that won't go away no matter how hard I yell at it.

 

I'm actually in IT. I see so much change in technology, I hesitate to buy the latest and greatest.

 

Flying cars for everyone? No way. Look at all the threads here on TBOT complaining about idiot drivers. Flying cars will only come to the masses when the air vehicle and navigation systems are completely automated and a national infrastructure is built to support it. Unless you are very young, most of us will not see it in our lifetime. In the meantime, your options are to fly helicopters and/or light airplanes.

On the other hand, it is fun to dream about it.

 

I want one with a bubble top that goes "wiiiirrrrrrddlllyeeeeeppphhhfffffffffffftttttttttt"

 

... a farting car?

 

I know what you're trying to say (and I want my flying car, too). But, you're only partially right, though.
-Polio vaccine; 1955 (that's when I got my shot). People still die from poliomyelitis, by the way. Oral vaccine? Yes, you're right.
-Microwaves; commercial ones were around in 1954 (the "fried" chicken was weird tasting, by the way), but the home models? '67.
-Jet Airliners; DeHavilland Comet debuted in 1952 with BOAC, but problems took it out of service. Boeing's 707 entered service in 1958 (flew in one a couple of times; it was a nice plane).
-Birth control pill; approved for use in 1960, but was more or less frowned upon until the "Free Love" era. (I think I remember it, but..)
-Pacemakers; external ones? All the way back to the 1890s, according to Wikipedia; first implantable one was done in 1958.
All the other stuff? Yeah, pretty much all post-1964/5. It's kind of scary - especially if your're 63 - but 50 years sure doesn't seem all that long ago. Now, if you'll excuse me; I'm exhausted, and need to go take a nap....

 

You really need to check your facts. 50 years ago was 1965. Many of the things on your list were around then or in development.

 

remember the rocket man that toured fairs and easter shows in 1970?

We were told we'd all have jet backpacks like him by the year 1984....

well?........where ARE they?

 

Flying cars. The FAA would never have it. Think about it.

 

A flying car would be cool but I would settle for a jet backpack

 

we are on Mars! been there for decades. the moon is taken, but we can look at it from here.

BARTENDER!!!